Gloucestershire War Graves Project

8th Cadet Wing, Royal Air Force Joseph Henry Edwin Lewis, known as Harry, was born 20 October 1900, the son of Henry C and Ellen Louise Lewis, who lived in Clermont Road Gloucester. Henry Lewis was a bricklayer but in 1911 the family moved to 178 Barton Street, Gloucester, to open up a fish shop,

2/4th Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) John George Lewis was probably known as ‘Jack’ and that name appears in some of the records relating to him. He was born on 19 September 1896 at Tetbury and baptised on 14 October of that year. His parents were George Lewis (1867-1909) and his wife Alice Davidson

6th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Cecil Charles Lewis was born in Mansfield, Victoria, Australia in 1896, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Lewis of Thistlebank, Moyhu, Victoria. He was their only child. He was working as a motor driver when he enlisted into the Australian Army, at Melbourne, on 19 April 1916. He gave

Devonshire Regiment Albert Edward Lewis was the third of four children born to Charles and Fanny Lewis of Cainscross near Stroud. He was baptised on 9 January 1898. Charles occupation is given as labourer. The 1901 Census shows the family living in Cainscross. His mother had been married previously to Richard Marchant and married Albert’s

27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Manitoba) On 26 October 1887 Lavinia Elizabeth Ledbetter, then aged 17, gave birth to a son, whom she named Ernest Frederick. Lavinia was unmarried and his father is unknown. In 1889 Lavinia married John Readman, a stone mason, fifteen years her senior and in time Ernest Frederick Ledbetter was joined by

9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Arthur Edward Lear was born in Stroud in January 1891 — there is a baptism register entry for 18 February 1891. Arthur was one of seven sons born to Henry and Sarah Ann Lear (previously Butler). Henry was born in Torquay and Sarah in Stroud. By 1901, two children and Henry

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Harold Leach was born in the second quarter of 1892 in Coberley, Gloucestershire the second son of James Leach and Elizabeth Taylor. His siblings were Frederick George (born 1890), Percy (1894), Oliver (1897), Purley Winifred (1900) and Gertrude Gladys (1902). In 1901, he was living with his parents, his older brother

Norfolk Regiment Alfred Andrew Lawrence was a soldier who never served outside of the UK and who was a victim of the 1917-19 ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic. He was born at Wyck Rissington, near to Bourton-on-the-Water in 1885: his parents were George Lawrence (1834-1893), an agricultural labourer and his wife Harriet (née Framiloe: 1848-1936). The couple

3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment attached to Royal Flying Corps Frederick King Laverton was born on 30 July 1898 at Dawlish, Devon, one of three children born to William King Laverton (a farmer) and his wife Ethel Maud. He was educated at Brymelyn School, Weston-super-Mare and for a short time at Cheltenham College. Prior to the

16th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Edward George Larner was born 13 December 1885, and baptised in Sherborne on 28 March 1886. He was the son of Joseph Larner and Jane Puffett. His siblings were James (1870), Jane (1872), Rose Hannah (1876), Rose Annie (1880), Ernest Charles (1882), Cicely Ethel (1884), Edward George (1886), an unnamed male

2nd Battalion, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Gilbert Raymond Large was born in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire on 15 March 1898. He was one of three children (second son) of George E and Ada Ellen Large and the family lived at Rockness Hill, Nailsworth. His father was a leather worker. We know little of Private Large’s service record,